[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, February 16-29, 2008

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar February 16-29, 2008* * * *Wednesday, February 20* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"Parties, Statist Stakeholders, and Informalization in Post-Soviet Welfare State Reform" /Linda J. Cook, Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, February 21* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Framed? The Dialogical Performance of Space in Stalinist Comedy" /Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, February 25* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / /Introduction to/ "Understanding the Management of Energy Dependency in the Post-Soviet World"/ / / Margarita Balmaceda, Center Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor, The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University// Papers are available on the web at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, February 25 * *Comparative Economics Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*// / "//Russia// and a New Cold War?"/ Edward Lucas, Former Moscow Correspondent, /The Economist/// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, February 28* *Special Performance* / "//Rossiya, My Native Land"/ in Russian poetry and songs// Students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard// 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room 110 4:30 p.m. * * * * *Friday, February 29* *Historians' Seminar*// / //"Russia's Place in Eurasia: A Reconsideration"/ John LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center // 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu